The amount of time residents can expect to live a healthy life varies between neighbourhoods in Halton by nearly 25 years.

Data published by the Office For National Statistics (ONS) showed that the borough had the third worst level of health inequalities for women in England and Wales.

Healthy life expectancy (HLE), which measures how long a person lives from birth before they suffer serious or chronic illness or disability, varies by 23.3 years.

The differences are most stark for women.

Women in Birchfield in Widnes have an HLE of 73.1 year, compared to 49.8 years among women in Windmill Hill in Runcorn.

Men in Windmill Hill are among the bottom 0.49% for HLE on 50.7 years, placing it in the 38th worst out of 7,782 areas ranked, and women in the bottom 0.13% – the 10th worst out of 7,895 neighbourhoods.

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Life expectancy among men in Windmill Hill is 70.6 years, indicating men will live in poor or disabled health for just under 20 years, and life expectancy for Windmill Hill’s women is 79 years, meaning many will live for about three decades in compromised health.

The ONS figures are broken down to council ward level and cover the years 2009-13.

For men, Knightsbridge And Belgravia in London has the highest HLE on 79.1 years, more than three decades longer than in the area with the lowest: Bloomfield in Blackpool where men on average have 47.1 years of health.

Bloomfield also had the shortest life expectancy in England and Wales at 68.2 years compared with Warfield Harvest Ride in Bracknell Forest at 90.3 years, a gap of 22.1 years.

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Among women, Blackheath And Wonersh in Surrey has the highest HLE, of 83 years, and Middlehaven in Middlesborough has the lowest, 47.6 years, the difference being 35.4 years.

For women the largest discrepancy in average HLE was the City Of Westminster at 25.3 years, followed by Bradford in West Yorkshire (23.6), Halton in Cheshire (23.3), Wrexham in North Wales (23.2) and Middlesbrough (23).